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Which do you prefer?

MINE:

Martin OO-15



I'm its bitch.

simon & patrick SP6 cedar.

unfortunately you can't really see it here but it's the first pic i found:

The way the top's marked up on that reminds me of my cedar-topped Godin Seagull. Stuff crunches like apple skin if you give it too much fingernail.

paul_ wrote:The way the top's marked up on that reminds me of my cedar-topped Godin Seagull. Stuff crunches like apple skin if you give it too much fingernail.

aye i'm all clumsy so it's got dings and scratches all over the shop.

doesn't matter though, it's one of them guitar i can't ever see myself selling.

I think I'm probably going to get a Seagull Maritime SWS at some point. It has all the sound of the Gibson J-45 I love, but at less than a third the price. Need to get used to the neck, though.

Ovation:
'07 Elite-T 1868T
'95 Balladeer 1751 12-string
'94 Celebrity Deluxe CC257

Ovations are great, give them a try.

soon...



also...

finboy wrote:soon...

GREAT GUITAR. They nailed the feel of a 40s Harmony, but you don't feel like it'll fall apart in yr hands. It's a delicate balance, and they nailed it.

Also, the price of the Kingpin is almost exactly what the Harmony's price would've been in the 40s (adjusted for inflation).

finboy wrote:soon...

aw balls i forgot about them, i really really like those.

how do those sound plugged in? remember you're speaking to someone with very limitied archtop experience so comparing it to another archtop is gonna be lost on me.

DuoSonicBoy wrote:I think I'm probably going to get a Seagull Maritime SWS at some point. It has all the sound of the Gibson J-45 I love, but at less than a third the price. Need to get used to the neck, though.

I hate the wide-ass neck on my Seagull, it just outperformed a lot of the guitars that were twice as expensive in the shop that day. Sound is great.
If the Maritime sounds the way you say it does, I may be interested as well.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:Which do you prefer?

MINE:

What model is that? I've always liked the look of the fender acoustics with bolt-on necks, is it similar to a normal fender neck?

It's a Sonoran SCE.

and it's a setneck. like, baseball bat thick.

don't have any pics of mine but here's one in inca silver (me thinks):



EDIT: and the body's fucking huge. it's really quite difficult to play sitting down.

now that i think about it, fuck this huge ass thing. i want the thin body dick dale sig he keeps flashing around at the fender promo shit.

I have a cheap steel string, and good quality (£400ish) nylon string classical acoustic. I while ago I was pretty set on getting a new, good steel string but never did. I would love a Martin 00-15, or a vintage 0-15:

1969 Gibson Country Western

It plays power chords.

i was always more impressed with the sound of the D's.

WOULD THO:

DuoSonicBoy wrote:

finboy wrote:soon...

GREAT GUITAR. They nailed the feel of a 40s Harmony, but you don't feel like it'll fall apart in yr hands. It's a delicate balance, and they nailed it.

Also, the price of the Kingpin is almost exactly what the Harmony's price would've been in the 40s (adjusted for inflation).

I was thinking about this recently. I have plenty of solid body electrics, but only one archtop, and it's one of my favourite guitars. Should I start buying more archtops? Bah.

This was the one I was thinking of. I'd love to hear how much more bark a P-90 has compared to the smooth, dark mini-hunbucker in my Emperor Regent.

paul_ wrote:

DuoSonicBoy wrote:I think I'm probably going to get a Seagull Maritime SWS at some point. It has all the sound of the Gibson J-45 I love, but at less than a third the price. Need to get used to the neck, though.

I hate the wide-ass neck on my Seagull, it just outperformed a lot of the guitars that were twice as expensive in the shop that day. Sound is great.
If the Maritime sounds the way you say it does, I may be interested as well.

Yes, the neck is proper awful. I haven't gone side-by-side with the J-45 (closest was Seagull v. Gibson AJ-45), but I've played probably 3 Seagull Maritimes and 5 J-45s and the seagull is 95% of the way there sound-wise. The woods, scale, body, and radiused top are the same, so it really is apples-to-apples. The Seagull isn't as complex sounding as the Gibson and lacks a little of the bass.

Still, $600 vs. $2000 is a big jump for a small improvement in sound. My main complaint is still the neck.

i honestly love my old silvertone. i don't know why. i like the tone, and for some reason it's easy to write songs with.